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Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American progressive political activist, and five-time candidate for President of the United States, having run as a write-in candidate in the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic primary, as the Green Party nominee in 1996 and 2000, and as an independent candidate in 2004 and 2008. He is also an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government. Nader came to prominence after publishing his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of the Chevrolet Corvair automobile. In 1999, an NYU panel of journalists ranked Unsafe at Any Speed 38th among the top 100 pieces of journalism of the 20th century. Life magazine named Ralph ...

As Earth Day 2011 approaches, it's nice to take a moment to reflect back on how far we've come in the environmental movement. Although enormous progress has been made, as an environmental activist, I often feel overwhelmed by the daily onslaught of bad news: the nuclear disaster in Japan, the mysterious "white nose syndrome" killing bats at an alarming pace, and mountaintop removal coal mining is still devastating Appalachia.
While dining recently with some Tennessee Sierra Club members, we discussed the aging of the mainstream environmental movement. I thought of the black and white photos ...

AC: In 2000,you drew nearly 10,000 people to a speech in Portland, Oregon. This year you got barely 2,000 in in the whole of Multnomah County where Portland lies, perhaps the most progressive county in the nation. Is this a sign of the withering of the progressive ggleft or the dead end of independent political campaigns?Nader: It’s a sign of the swoon in the voting booth by people who told pollsters that they were going to vote for me at a level of 4 to 7 million; that is, 6 per cent nationally in the summer and 3 per cent the day before the election, according to CNN. In Washington DC ...

Not since the 1960s, when seat belts became standard equipment in cars, has the atmosphere been so favorable for consumer-friendly reform. After decades of hands-off capitalism and shrinking consumer protection agencies, the Wall Street meltdown has unmistakably changed the nation's attitude toward regulation. And Americans have just elected a president who has promised to reform the credit card industry, bankruptcy law, and toy safety, to name a few.So you’d think that Ralph Nader, the father of the modern consumer movement in America, would be happy.You'd be wrong.Nader is worried that ...